The Local Food Report

The other day I finally put my garden to bed. While I ripped out the skeletons of tomatoes and tucked away eggplant cages for another season, I noticed some of my plants had gone to seed.

Peter Burgess is as interested in the history of farming as he is in the practice itself. His farm in Truro is called Sixpence Farm, after a silver coin he found in the soil that dates back to 1689.

This week on the Local Food Report, a re-telling of the Thanksgiving story with an unexpected narrator.

This week, Elspeth talks with a Falmouth cook who’s experimenting with chestnut flour.

Walter Goldstein became interested in corn in the 1980s. “I started working with all sorts of corn breeders, I started learning from them, teaching myself how to breed the corn.

Winter squash is everywhere these days. I find it in my soup and folded into pies, it’s hidden in the guise of muffins and sweetbreads.

This time of year, it’s still dark when Patrick Rickaby and his springer Ada leave home. They climb out of Patrick’s truck at dawn deep in the heart of Cape Cod National Seashore.

Gianni Bisone of Truro grew up in Italy. His whole family is from there.

When Laura Geiges was a little girl, her mom used to bring home something special from New York City’s China Town. It was quail eggs.

Tracy Sylvester wants to change the way we think about frozen fish.